Smell You Now, Smell You Later
from the this-is-so-smell-2.0 dept
The sense of smell is widely known to evoke emotional memories, which is why cookie stores pump their delicous scents into malls across America. As a result, artificially re-creating smells has been tried over and over again, but to no avail. Perhaps previous attempts failed because they only addressed half of the problem. Japanese researchers have created a device that can both record and playback smells. “Point the gadget at a freshly baked cookie and it will reproduce the odour”, claim the engineers. Being able to record smells yourself opens up more interesting applications beyond the novelty of just sitting next to your computer smelling websites. Although, how long before the RIAA starts cracking down on unauthorized smell-recordings of concerts?
Comments on “Smell You Now, Smell You Later”
VA computer/data security
Since the computer was out of their posession how can they be sure someone didn’t image the hard drive? There are ways this can be done that does not show access date and tiime changes.
Can it smell my farts?
What if I record the smell of my farts, hide the machine, then play back the smells to frame a co-worker?
If this technology is ever integrated into web surfing, I may never visit a porn site again.
wow that would be mega raunchy!!!!
Who was it??
The number of possibilities is mind boggling.
Wendy Rtd
Wendy says it smells like cotton candy.
I would pay $74.95 every 3 months to see, hear, and SMELL p***y
😛
Think of....
(warning: sarcasm ahead)
… the children
How many poor innocent children will be needlessly humiliated by foul stenches eminating from underneath their desks at school due to this device. And let’s not forget sibling rivalry… the poor parents. How long before “scent packs” come out and are downloadable over the P2P networks.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
Never happen
How would you keep it from reproducing the billions of atomic combinations that produce poisonous gasses.
It’s bad enough these days that you visit a ‘bad’ website and your machine fills up with spyware, in the future you visit a bad website and your room fills up with poison gas??
Re: Never happen
The article said it could reproduce SMELLS, nothing more. Just because one thing smells like another, that is no sign it actually becomes that thing. Reproducing the smell of a poisonous gas does not necessarily imply that the gas itself has been reproduced.
Re: Re: Never happen
Dang it! I was ready to start smelling myself some gold dust…
Yes
A reason to surf porn again!
Maybe
Just stay off of the anal penetration sites.
Re: Maybe
omg, you had to go there…pokes imaginary third eye out and plugs nose.
Smellovision!!
It’s been a joke for years, but now it’s a possibility! Can you imagine watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre or some other chop ’em up movie? Yuck! Then again, the Food Channel will become extremely popular among the lower income levels… if they can get to a smellovision set, that is.. Or maybe just with people with poor cooking skills. The kitchen smells like Chateau Briand and Chocolate Mousse, and you get served meatloaf and Jello Pudding…
Oh god. I know exactly where those Japanese are going to be pointing that odor “recorder”. Argghgghghgh, the world could have gone on for another two centuries, and not missed this invention.
Re: Re:
I just can’t see a sense of smelling websites being a big deal, other than advertisement, and I can’t stand it already. The smellorama thingy will be more negative as advertiser push there crap on the users. Instead of spyware we’d have smellware: a smell followed by a “buy it”. IE cookie smell followed by Buy Grandmas internet cookies…and it would happen every time you connect to the net, or webpage even. Nooooooooo Thanks
Stop touchin' my odor.
Encapsulate it with yer nosy.
too many adds
if there are 14 adds on one webpage and they range from cookies to oil to egg farming to kitty litter to odor-eaters to…
WHOLLY SHIT!!! The smello-rama would make me barf on my monitor and I would get seriosuly mad that I would have to go to the Pepto-Bismal website to settle my stomach!
Okay, like sound, this would have to be something you could turn on or off in web a browser or PC. But while some replies show imagination, most are so pedestrian.
Imagine the possibilities for the lovesick or the downright stalker. Many/most people find olfactory stimuli very powerful, and smells left on clothing for example can be very arousing (usually when it is a familiar loved one of course). So with this invention not only could one have pics, video, and audio of a loved one (or stalk-ee), they could record and playback their scent too. So many possibilities…
Oh, and to the comment on poision gas, there is a difference between mimicking a smell and reproducing a toxic chemical combination. Usually it isn’t the smell of a toxin that is the issue, the smell just comes along for the ride with the nasty chemicals.